[TUNE] And His Tattoo

Tune posted at his blog the history about his tattoo.

Right after Tune's logo was finished he decided to have a tattoo of "TUNE" and his first album title "TUNE your mind". But since it is the first time he has a tattoo, he was also worried ... for 0.03seconds.

Before getting a tattoo he consulted musicians around him that already have one and mentioned that especially the thoughtful and careful advices from Yozoh were good.
The artdirector who made the logo together with TUNE and the tattoo artist sat together planning out the exact size needed and to avoid any errors during tattooing. Even though a lot of people told that it hurts, Tune said that it was just a pricking, not huting at all. The only thing was the tension during the 1 hour job.
Thinking about what he should call his second album, people around him are starting to ask if he will have a tattoo everytime he releases a new album. He said that if he would do it, he would be all over album titles when he's 50 then and no space for movie mementos...

He also warns before making a tattoo, to think carfully about it, since it stays for a very long time, and to not have regrets later.
For people who think "Tattoo=scary guy", he wants them to see it as a kind of art, like hip hop and rock music, like graffiti or videos are, and wants them to recognize the diversity of tattoos.

Actually TUNE wanted the photo with his fist and the tattoo to be a jacket photo, but even though it wasn't used as that, he's comfortable with showing at the beginning and end of a performance.

On another note, his third music video for '달려가잖아' is in work and is probably going to be released in January next year.

[TUNE] Winning GMF Awards MVP

Members of Mintpaper, so called 'Minter', had the chance to choose their favorite acts out of the performers of the GMF. Awards were given in Best Artist Overall, Best Performance, Best Moment, Best Rookie and Best Oversea Artist. The numbers were made of the voices of 200 Minters (80%) and the Mintpaper staff (20%).

TUNE, who didn't just performed the two days but was also active for environment, being the lead in seperate garbage collection for 2 years.

A lot of Minter stated that his healthy and handsome image of him spending energy from the start of the performances to the end into garbage seperation was left in their minds.

Second for MVP was Lee Juck and third came Buldog Mansion.
Best Performance were Lee Juck, Sister's Barbershop and Buldog Mansion.
Best Rookie were Joa-band (좋아서하는 밴드), Dry Flower and Amado Lee Jaram Band.
Best Moment were Lee Juck, Pepertones (at the end, the falling green balloons) and Sister's Barbershop (doing 'wonderful things/아름다운 것' together).
Best Oversea Artist was Hideki Kaji, The Cribs and Denison Witmer.

[TUNE] Music Video 'Freedom'

TUNE posted his new musicvideo today on his blog, you can watch it here.

Also, a comment left by the video editor states that the next video for '달려가잖아' is in preparation.

[TUNE] goes farther than just GMF

Tune tells us how to safe the environment: take the public transport! Tune does it too.


Next to his new experiences of a new Japanese Ramen Restaurant (the ramen there are so tasty that you get teary when eating them) he tells us over his me2day that he also took a seminar about 'Green Jobs' at the Dongguk University (for 3 days - thursday till saturday) He surely takes his job as Tune seriously.